Galloping rocking-horse



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G. W. WADE. GALLOPING ROCKING HORSE.

No. 420,844. Patented-Feb. 4. 1890.

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GEORGE WV. WVADE, OF CADILLAC, MICHIGAN.

GALLOPING ROCKING-HORSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,844, dated February 4,1890

Application filed May 28,1889- SerlalNo. 312,379. (No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Cadillac, in the county of lVeXford and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Galloping Rocking-Horses, of which the followingis a specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side View of my invention with the rods or braces, wrought as swinging legs C, attached to the short rocker E, thrown forward into View. Fig. 2 shows the construction and connection of the swinging legs of the horse in one manner of constructing my invention. Fig. 3 shows the construction of the rockers and their connection with the stationary and swinging legs of the horse.

In the different figures of the drawings the same letters indicate the same parts differently shown.

My invention has relation to galloping rocking-horses; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the ordinary toy rocking-horse so arranged and constructed with rods or braces C swinging loosely upon a bolt or pin gin the upper end at or near the saddle of thehorse A and connected by cross-bar H at the lower ends, and of such length that as the horse is rocked forward the lower and back ends of the rods or braces said rod C, when said stationary rocker D again receives the weight of the rider, and the forward rock is again given, and again the rods or braces C drop forward to receive the weight of the rider. in the backward rock. These swinging rods C, with short rockers E attached, may be straight arms of iron or wood, made of proper length and bolted loosely to any rocking-horse; or they maybe wrought into the shape of the hind legs of the horse, with short rockers working inside or outside the stationary rockers, and attached to the body of the horse with a pin or bolt in such manner as to allow them to swing forward and backward, substantially as described, and thereby preserving the natural appearance of a galloping horse.

My invention may also be made by constructing a pair of false hind legs working inside those attached to the stationary rockers and swinging in slots prepared for them, as shown in the drawings. It may also be constructed by the use of one rod or brace swinging from the body of the horse and supplied at the bottom end with one broad or two or more thin rockers or other device to prevent the horse from tipping over while operating.

The object of my invention is to provide a rocking-horse which, when used as are ordinary rocking-horses, has a forward traveling movement similar to that of a galloping horse.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the body of the horse proper, of which\ B is the outer half or portion of the hind leg tached the horse A.

E and E is the short rocker attached to the swinging rod or brace C.

F represents the slot oTway within which the rod C swings.

H and II in Fig. 3 represent the cross-bar holding in position. the lower ends of rods or braces C.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a' rockinghorse, the combination, with the body, and stationary legs and rockers attached thereto, of auxiliary hind legs or rods loosely pivoted to the body, and short rockers attached to said legs or rods, substantially as described.

2. In a rocking-horse, the combination, hand and seal in the presence of two Witwith the body, and stationary legs and rockers nesses. attached thereto, of auxiliary hind legs 01' rods connected together and loosely pivoted GEORGE l 5 to the body, and short rockers attached to said I \Vitnesses:

auxiliary legs, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my JAMES S. DAVIS, DAN BERTRAND. 

